Australian clinical review / Australian Medical Association [and] the Australian Council on Hospital Standards
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An analysis was made of 82 public hospitals surveyed by the ACHS in 1990 that had received recommendations for improvement within their Accident and Emergency service. The major areas requiring attention included quality assurance, scope of service, policy and procedure manuals, signposting and the appointment of a medical practitioner responsible for the service. The analysis also revealed that 90% of the recommendations for improvement made by ACHS surveyors at a previous survey had been fully or partially implemented upon resurvey in 1990.
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Eight hundred and ninety-eight patients of the Royal Women's Hospital, Brisbane were surveyed by phone and questionnaire to identify their hospital related child-care needs. In addition, staff in acute admitting areas of the hospital were asked to provide details of child-care problems. Twenty-five (5.2%) of the sample reported hospital related child-care problems, 166 (39.7%) respondents stated that they would use a hospital child-care service on a casual basis and 45 (10.8%) that they would use one for the duration of their stay.